Hotel

("Black" edition)

This is the first "modern" version of Hotel.
The dimensions of the box have been fortunately reduced to about half of the 1974 edition, due to the fact that the table is now foldable in two. Everything has been totally redesigned and improved, even money, entrances (now they resamble real entrance of an hotel), dice (now region-free without any text) and cars (now the shape reminds a Porsche).
The rules are basically the same of the first edition, but since now Boomerang is much more powerful than before.
One of the biggest step forward was the design of the new buildings. It's very well done, now the single hotels have more "character", each of them has its own roof and dimensions, making everything more graphical appealing (which is its success against Monopoly).
I think this is the most successful and more known version of the game, it was translated in several European languages and has been reprinted with small improvements from 1986 to 1992 with always more languages. With a great worldwide promotion and tv commercials (see the Video section of this site), it gained a lot of fame between children and adults.
In the first release President was more powerful (7200 complete for six nights instead of $6600), in the others the title deeds are not coated and on the gameboard the first space doesn't give you anymore a free building phase, the arrows are grey instead of blue, the spaces where you can't put an entrance are evidenced in gray to avoid confusion.

Trivia: In Italy, BIM BUM BAM (a famous kids TV show at that time), included the game GIANT HOTEL. The whole set was built with the items of the boardgame Hotel, rebuilt to person size. It featured a short game played by kids with a simplified version of the rules.

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TECHNICAL DATA

NAME

Hotel

YEAR

from 1986 to 1992

COUNTRIES

England, Italy, Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands, Greece, Finland, Sweden, Hungaria, Danmark, Israel

LANGUAGES

English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Greek, Finnish, Swedish, Hungarian, Danish, Hebrew

PUBLISHERS

MB Games, Nilco, Ordea

BOX

Dimensions: 51 x 32.5 x 5.5 cm.

BOX LID OUTSIDE

BOX LID INSIDE

BOX BASE OUTSIDE

BOX BASE INSIDE

BOARD

Dimensions: 62 x 49.5 cm. - FOLD IN HALF

BOARD FRONT

BOARD BACKSIDE

VARIOUS PARTS

BOX DIVIDER

Dimensions: as full box

INSTRUCTIONS

Dimensions: as full box

On the BOX LID INSIDE

TITLE DEEDS

Dimensions: 9.5 x 12.9 cm.

BANKNOTES

Dimensions: 4.9 x x 11.5 cm.

DICE

TOKENS

ENTRANCES

BANK / TOWN HALL

HOTELS

HOTEL 1

Name:

FUJIYAMA
Roofs pieces:

3
Bases pieces:

3
Facilities:

1

PART	COST
Land	1000
Entrance	100

BUILDING	COST	RENT / NIGHT
Main Building	2200	100
Extension 1	1400	100
Extension 2	1400	200
Extension 3
Extension 4
Facilities	500	400

HOTEL 2

Name:

BOOMERANG
Roofs pieces:

1
Bases pieces:

1
Facilities:

1

PART	COST
Land	500
Entrance	100

BUILDING	COST	RENT / NIGHT
Main Building	1800	400
Extension 1
Extension 2
Extension 3
Extension 4
Facilities	250	600

HOTEL 3

Name:

L'ETOILE
Roofs pieces:

5
Bases pieces:

5
Facilities:

1

PART	COST
Land	3000
Entrance	250

BUILDING	COST	RENT / NIGHT
Main Building	3300	150
Extension 1	2200	300
Extension 2	1800	300
Extension 3	1800	300
Extension 4	1800	450
Facilities	4000	750

HOTEL 4

Name:

PRESIDENT
Roofs pieces:

4
Bases pieces:

4
Facilities:

1

PART	COST
Land	3500
Entrance	250

BUILDING	COST	RENT / NIGHT
Main Building	5000	200
Extension 1	3000	400
Extension 2	2250	600
Extension 3	1750	800
Extension 4
Facilities	5000	1200

HOTEL 5

Name:

ROYAL
Roofs pieces:

4
Bases pieces:

4+2 lamp-posts
Facilities:

1

PART	COST
Land	2500
Entrance	200

BUILDING	COST	RENT / NIGHT
Main Building	3600	150
Extension 1	2600	300
Extension 2	1800	300
Extension 3	1800	450
Extension 4
Facilities	3000	600

HOTEL 6

Name:

WAIKIKI
Roofs pieces:

5
Bases pieces:

5
Facilities:

1

PART	COST
Land	2500
Entrance	200

BUILDING	COST	RENT / NIGHT
Main Building	3500	200
Extension 1	2500	350
Extension 2	2500	500
Extension 3	1750	500
Extension 4	1750	650
Facilities	2500	1000

HOTEL 7

Name:

TAJ MAHAL
Roofs pieces:

3 + 3 domes
Bases pieces:

3
Facilities:

1

PART	COST
Land	1500
Entrance	100

BUILDING	COST	RENT / NIGHT
Main Building	2400	100
Extension 1	1000	100
Extension 2	500	200
Extension 3
Extension 4
Facilities	1000	300

HOTEL 8

Name:

SAFARI
Roofs pieces:

3
Bases pieces:

3
Facilities:

1

PART	COST
Land	2000
Entrance	150

BUILDING	COST	RENT / NIGHT
Main Building	2600	100
Extension 1	1200	100
Extension 2	1200	250
Extension 3
Extension 4
Facilities	2000	500

SEALED GAME PICTURES

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RELEASES

In 1986 release the "Hotel" has not the glossy sliver finishing, while 1990 on the back is printed a description of the hotels and some prizes the previous releases has won

1990 table's first space is not a "Build one phase free", and finally the spaces where you can't put an entrance are grey (not in the UK release). The backside of the table on 1986 release is red, 1988 is dark grey with "Hotel" logo and 1990 is black with the logo too.

1986 release board, has a little misalignment mistake between President and Waikiki terrains

1986 release dice have a design slightly different from 1988/1990 edition

1986 Spanish release has the instructions printed on the back of the box base insted of inside the box lid

In 1986 Spanish release, President and Fujiyama walls are not shiny glossy

1986 Spanish release has a different plastic divider

1986 Hebrew release has paper rules

1986 Hebrew release has an English board, instead of translating it, you can find a sheet with some lables in Hebrew to manually apply over the english words

In 1986 Hebrew release front box, the heading "Hotel" has not a bevel effect

In 1986 Hebrew release the Royal logo on its title deeds is pink, while Fuyama and Waikiki deeds has a few values missing